BaMBA
Biology and Mathematics in the Bay Area

BaMBA is a one-day meeting aimed at creating a fairly informal atmosphere to explore the role of mathematics, statistics, and computer science in modern biology. Going beyond traditional applied mathematics it will include algebraic, topological, statistical and computational methods. To encourage further dialogue between people from different disciplines we will organize a dinner at a nearby restaurant. We expect everyone to join us for the dinner following the talks.

Schedule

• 9:00-9:30 Refreshments and Informal Discussion
  
  
• 9:30-10:30 Roger Brent (Molecular Sciences Institute)
  How can math help us understand the biology of function?
  
  
• 10:30-10:50 Coffee Break
  
  
• 10:50-11:50 Patrice Koehl (UC Davis Genome Center)
  Protein Structure Space abstract
  
  
• 12:00-2:00 Lunch -- Rigoberta Menchu Room at the Cesar Chavez Student Center.
  
  
• 2:00-3:00 De Witt L. Sumners (FSU Molecular Biophysics Institute)
  DNA Topology: Experiments and Analysis abstract
  
  
• 3:10-4:10 John Huelsenbeck (UC San Diego Biological Sciences)
  Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees
  
  
• 4:10-4:30 Coffee Break
  
  
• 4:30-5:30 Donna Albertson (UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Research Center)
  Variants and Deviants: Copy Number Profiles of Normal and Tumor Genomes abstract
  
  
• 6:30 Dinner at the The Thirsty Bear (661 Howard Street); see map.

Lunch and dinner will be free. Please note that seats for dinner are limited and we need a head-count by November 30th.

Directions : You can find the driving and BART directions to the SFSU campus here. If you are driving we suggest that you follow the directions to the Parking Lot 19. If you are taking the BART, the bus from Daily City Station to the campus will drop you off at the corner of Holloway and 19th Avenue. Please check the map here and orient yourself.

Organizers:

• Javier Arsuaga, SFSU (jarsuaga@sfsu.edu).
• Serkan Hosten, SFSU (serkan@math.sfsu.edu).
• Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley (bernd@math.berkeley.edu).
• Mariel Vazquez, SFSU (mariel@math.sfsu.edu).